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Eylül 2008

LUMBERG Grubu Eşzamanlı mühendislik süreçlerini
PTC® CoCreate® ürünleri ile uyguluyor

PTC şirketi, Alman Lumberg Grubunun ürün geliştirme süreçlerini PTC'nin tasarımda ve üretimde kullanımı kolay olan " eksplisit modelleme ve veri yönetimi" yazılımı "CoCreate" ile optimize ettiğini bildirdi.  Lumberg, hızlı değişen ürünlerini eşzamanlı üretmek için CoCreate Modeling™ ve CoCreate Model Manager™  i kullanıyor.
Lumberg Grubu Avrupa, Amerika ve Asya kıtalarına yayılmış çok sayıdaki kendi ürün geliştirme ve üretim yerlerinin dışında özel ve fleksibel müşteri çözümlerinin pazarlanması için dünya üzerine yayılmış bir satış ağına sahip.  Otomotiv, Foto endüstrisi, iletişim ve beyaz eşya endüstrilerine yönelik çok sayıda konnektör sistemleri ve elemanlar  üretimlerinin ana bölümünü oluşturmakta.

Günümüzün gittikçe kısalan geliştirme süreçlerini karşılamak için, Lumberg in ürünlerinin ve üretim teknolojisinin paralel tasarım yöntemini destekleyen bir çözüme geçmesi geçmesi gerekiyordu. İlk yeni ürün konseptinin 3 boyutda tasarlanması başlar başlamaz,  üretim teknolojisinin gelişmesi başlar.  CoCreate ürünlerinin kullanılması,  tasarım bölümüne, beklenmeyen değişikliklerinin tasarım süreçinin en son anına kadar dikkate alınmasını sağlar.

Lumberg in Ar&Ge bölüm müdürü Stefan Jorgens "Güçlü eksplicit modelleme yapısıyla PTC CoCreate Modeling ve üretim verileri yönetim (PDM) sistemi CoCreate Model Manager in  sayesinde, eşzamanlı mühendisliğin getirdiği tüm avantajlardan faydalanmaktayız" diyor ve şöyle ekliyor "Değişen proje gereksinimlerimizin getirdiği çok kısa süreli üretim süreçlerini tutturmak için CoCreate ürünleri bizim için çok önemli. Değiştirme ağırlıklı ve kısa zamanda bitirmemiz gereken projelerimiz için, bu yazılım eşsiz avantajlar getiriyor."

PTC nin ürün müdürü Martin Neumüller ise "Lumberg grubunun PTC CoCreate ürünlerinin eksplisit modelleme avantajları ile eşzamanlı mühendislik için zamana duyarlı  süreçlerini optimize etmesi bizi sevindiriyor “ diyor. Lumberg grubunun başarısı, Eksplisit modelleme nin, değişken, hızlı ürün geliştirmelerede nakadar  önemli olduğunu göz önüne sermektedir.

November 2007

MANITOU Navigates Product Development Terrain with CoCreate Suite

Forklift-truck manufacturer picks up design flexibility, easy-to-use applications by standardization on CoCreate Modeling.
The manufacturer of all-terrain forklift-trucks has successfully deployed more than 100 seats of CoCreate Modeling, CoCreate Model Manager, and various add-on modules in five locations worldwide.
With its 2,500 staff members, 21 subsidiaries and 600 points of sale, MANITOU, an international company located in western France produces and distributes choice equipment for construction, industrial and agricultural markets worldwide. .

MANITOU relies on Modeling's Explicit Modeling based approach to 3D product development to help engineers flexibly change models as new insight and innovative ideas arise.

"We use the Explicit Modeling based approach to streamline our collaboration with development partners," said Christian Herrmann, MANITOU's IT Director. "For example, our team imports partner's CAD models for diesel engines right into CoCreate Modeling, where we can easily fit fixture geometry to our current requirements."

MANITOU has also streamlined development with CoCreate's online collaboration software. MANITOU saves with CoCreate OneSpace.net as its teams collaborate on projects with external partners (suppliers, subcontractors). OneSpace.net cuts business travel and results in fewer communication mishaps.

MANITOU recently replaced its highly customized PDM environment with CoCreate Model Manager. This standard solution integrates tightly with CoCreate Modeling and offers impressive performance when working with large assemblies.

"CoCreate Model Manager is easy to implement and easy to use," said Herrmann. "So much so, that our engineering departments at MANITOU will adopt it. CoCreate Model Manager will be deployed in France this year."

MANITOU plans to further streamline product development and lifecycle management by integrating CoCreate Model Manager into its ERP system. That way, the company can exchange technical data when transitioning from development to manufacturing.

"Our aim was to extend the use/usage of our CAD-PLM system, which is considered powerful and flexible by our end users," said Herrmann. "And we needed a product development environment that can easily be integrated via standard connections into our future ERP system. CoCreate's PLM solution combines all these things."

 

2004 Şubat

Avrupa Uydu teknolojisi şirketi "Alcatel Space", CoCreate in Üretim Yönetim sistemi "Model Manager" in kullanıcı sayısını  1500 adete çıkardı

CoCreate in Model Manager yazılımı, şimdi Alcatel Space in kendi mühendislik ve teknik enformasyon sisteminin omurgası olarak kullanılmakta.
Model Manager kullanarak ve şirket içi işlemleri ince ayarlayarak, Alcatel Space, uydu teknolojisinde önemli olan,  ürün geliştirme süreçlerini en aza indirmiştir.
Model Manager ile, Alcatel Space mühendisleri, planlama ve geliştirme süreçlerini optimize etmekte, teknik verilerin güvenirliliğini garantilemekte ve mevcut üretim verilerinin korunması ve gerektiğinde kullanılmasını sağlamaktadırlar.
Her uydu için toplanan veriler güvenlik içinde, sistemde saklanmaktadır.

Alcatel Space önceden yalnız, uydu endüstrisinin elektronik ve roket gereksinimlerini karşılarken, bugün artık komple uydu sistemleri üretmektedir.
Yeni çalışma bürolarının ve etkinlik alanlarının açılması, PDM sistemlerinin oluşması, Alcatel Space IT Systems bölümünün 3 misli büyümesine etken olmuştur.

Bu yeni durumların ve ve verimlilik arttırımı zorunluluğunun ışığında, Alcatel Space, enformasyon sistemini standardize etmeye karar verir.
Kanıtlanmış üst düzey performansı, Alcatel Space'in Toulouse merkezindeki  uygulanabilirliği dolayısıyla, Model Manager,  Alcatel Space'in Cannes ve Valence merkezlerinde de uygulanmasına karar  verilmişdir.
Sistemin kurulması 1 hafta sonu içinde tamamlandığından, Alcatel Space'in günlük çalışma ortamında kopukluk olmamıştır.

 

Leading race team selects OneSpace Designer

CoCreate Software, Inc. announced that Perkins Engineering, which designs and manufactures race cars for Castrol Perkins Racing in Australia, has standardized on CoCreate Software’s OneSpace Designer solid modeling CAD solution.

Perkins Engineering was established in 1970 and has grown to become one of Australia’s leading suppliers of components to suit Holden V8 Supercars.  The team’s record of producing strong reliable cars is unrivalled.

 “Reducing production lead-time, a hallmark of Perkins Engineering, is always a primary goal,” said Larry Perkins, Director of Perkins Engineering.  “We can now realize product innovations in lead times only dreamed of prior to commissioning OneSpace Designer.  It has helped us achieve an unrivalled record of producing fast, reliable vehicles for V8 Supercar racing.”

CoCreate’s OneSpace Designer is a 3D-based solution for product development, tailored specifically to the needs of mechanical and electromechanical engineers.  Unlike other solid modelers, it is based on a Dynamic Modeling paradigm.  It frees designers from working within predetermined design constraints, allowing them to explore more options -- without having to start over.

 

WorkManager is selected from UK Ministry of defence for the radar project

CoCreate’s distributed product-information and process-management solution WorkManager has been selected as the information-management system for the UK’s Ministry of Defence Airborne Stand-Off Radar (ASTOR) Project. The system will be linked to an existing U.S. system and will provide a Web-based workflow document-management system, integrating Raytheon, its subcontractors and the UK Ministry of Defence. The system uses WorkManager’s Web Access Server, Distributed File Server and Global DataManager.

To enable the partial replication of metadata and files between the UK and the United States, WorkManager’s Global DataManager and Distributed File Servers are being employed.

The £800 million (US $ 1.3 billion) airborne radar surveillance program provides day/night and all-weather imagery of the ground over a large area. The imagery can be analyzed on board the aircraft and passed in near real-time to ground stations and other military systems.

Raytheon's winning proposal combines proven radar technology  with a defined upgrade path, the best aircraft in the Bombardier    Aerospace Global Express, and the ground station expertise of  Motorola, providing the British Armed Forces with the most           technologically advanced system in the world.


"Due to the size of the ASTOR contract, we needed a global information management system that could control and share a large number of documents among the contractors and publish the documents online to the customer," said Mike Payne, systems development manager for Raytheon Systems Limited. "After evaluating other leading products, we chose WorkManager because it met our needs and could be implemented quickly."

 

OneSpace Designer sets standards for  Panasonic copiers, fax machines and printers

OneSpace Designer 3-D modeling solution has been fully deployed at Tokyo-based Matsushita Graphic Communication Systems (MGCS), a subsidiary of the Matsuhita Electric Industrial Group, in its product-development process for designing world-famous Panasonic brand copiers, fax machines and color printers.
The Office Equipment Division, which makes Panasonic high-performance business copiers and color printers, was able to implement OneSpace Designer and take full advantage of its 3-D modeling processes in just four months.
"Our former 3-D CAD software was very complicated, so only some of our designers used it, and we couldn’t realize the full benefit of its capabilities," said Takeshi Tanaka, senior coordinator for MGCS’s Information Systems Department. "After only two days of OneSpace Designer demonstrations and evaluation, I was fully convinced that OneSpace Designer  was the right choice for us"
According to MGCS, a key reason for choosing OneSpace Designer was its dynamic modeling environment, which allows design revisions that are not constrained by previous design assumptions. "OneSpace Designer’s dynamic modeling technology allows the easy modification of 3-D models. This feature is very practical and useful for our design work," said Tanaka.

 

 

More than 2000 seats of WorkManager are in use at Samsung Electronics

Samsung Electronics from Korea is making a richer life for people around the world by developing digital, multimedia products and home appliances that are friendly to both people and the environment.
Samsung Electronics products are popular worldwide for their quality and reliability. The company holds the front positions in the world for TVs, color monitors, videos, notebook PCs, hard-discs, printers, faxes, phones, mobile-phones, air-conditioners, microwave-ovens, refrigerators, vacuum-cleaners, washing-machines, defense-systems, robots, controllers for the factory automation, DRAMs, SRAMs, and TFT-LCDs and many others.
Samsung currently has more than 2000 WorkManager seats of CoCreate and is managing 1.417.000 (1.4 million) masterparts in the WorkManager database.
By using WorkManager to centralize parts definition across all business units worldwide, 300.000 parts are eliminated from the Samsung's corporate parts database of 650.000 parts.
To develop a new product range is reduced from 840 man/month to 225 man/month.
The development of the WorkManager PDM have enforced all new standards and processes, thus allowing en Enterprise wide Business Process Re-engineering.
 

 

Canon selects OneSpace Designer as standard 3D solution for business machine development

Tokyo based Canon Inc. has made a strategic decision to standardize on CoCreate’s 3-D solid modeling solution,  OneSpace Designer, for Canon’s office machine products.
According to Canon, OneSpace Designer  will be used for the design of its office machine  products, which account for 1,300 billion yen in revenue for Canon. This relationship will build on the more than 200 seats of OneSpace Designer that Canon currently has installed
After evaluating several different 3-D systems, Canon said it chose  OneSpace Designer because of its ease of use, dynamic modeling approach.
 

 

Liebherr replaces existing history based system with OneSpace Designer

 Liebherr-Werk Ehingen GmbH, a  leading Germany based manufacturer of mobile cranes, has made a strategic decision to standardize on CoCreate’s OneSpace Designer 3-D design solution. Under the terms of the contract, CoCreate supplied 34 seats of OneSpace Designer  including various modules and consulting to Liebherr this year. For the year 2000, 46 more seats of OneSpace Designer are planned, including additional modules.
According to Liebherr, the company subjected OneSpace Designer to a series of intensive tests on several design projects last year, following a two-year period in which it used another 3D CAD system. A very flexible system was required, as Liebherr  often had to cope with model modifications that were not predictable at concept stage. The CoCreate software passed with flying colors.
OneSpace Designer’s flexible, open approach offered many benefits over history-based 3-D models from other systems.
 

 

Schindler is using OneSpace Designer  for the development of Schindler’s revolutionary  new elevator model  Smart MRL 001

Schindler S.A. is the world’s leading producer of escalators and the world’s second  largest manufacturer of elevators with more than 100 national companies and over 1,000  local branches worldwide. Every day, more than 500 million people travel using Schindler-manufactured installations.
OneSpace Designer  was used to design a new compact gear specifically for this elevator model, as well as a new overspeed governor that will also be used in other Schindler  products. The gear was developed from scratch in only nine months, helping to bring the  new elevator to market in record time.
The design installation at Zaragoza includes more than 40 seats of OneSpace Designer  and CoCreate’s ME10 design, drafting and documentation solution.
All over the world Schindler has more than 200 seats of different CoCreate products.
 

 

Festo once again purchased several CoCreate seats

Festo, a leading German based  manufacturer of pneumatic components and systems, and also hand hold power tools,
has placed an additional order for 60 more seats of OneSpace Designer 3-D software.
Festo has been a CoCreate customer for approximately five years and has successfully  installed and used, across several divisions worldwide, more than 100 seats of  OneSpace Designer; 260 seats of CoCreate’s ME10 2D drafting solution; and 600 seats of
WorkManager, CoCreate’s product data management solution.
According to Festo, two of its key corporate objectives are to continually improve its processes, and to deliver superior and more innovative products to the marketplace.

 

Proton will use WorkManager as the enterprise wide PDM solution

Proton, a leading Malaysian car manufacturer, has selected the WorkManager product data management (PDM) solution  as an enterprise wide PDM system to support all current and future product development  work.
The WorkManager implementation forms part of Proton’s continuing drive to reduce time to market for its new models.
WorkManager will run on HP-UX alongside a wide range of client  hardware, including Windows NT(R), SGI and IBM, with 150 users initially.
 

 

 Shell has selected WorkManager as PDM system for Oil and Gas exploration

Shell UK Exploration and Production (Shell Expro) division is responsible for Shell's all offshore oil and gas activities in the North Sea. After the fire disaster at the Piper Alpha oil platform, the UK Department of Energy required that the safety measures need to be tightened.

 Shell is required to show that the documents being used onshore and offshore are maintained and controlled and that the most up-to-date versions are available. Also to improve the profitability the production costs have to be reduced.  An efficient document management system would enable Shell to reduce the offshore staff. After a long selection period Shell has decided for  CoCreate's PDM solution WorkManager. Price and Performance of WorkManager was better then Sherpa, Intergraph, Cimage and IBM's PDM solutions. The final stage will cover around 100 Users at 5 different systems.

 

 

CoCreate Software outranks competition  in MCAD and  PDM industry (Customer satisfaction surveys)

CoCreate Software Inc, provides better quality mechanical computer-aided design (MCAD) and product-data management  (PDM) products than its competitors, according to two recent user surveys  covering customer satisfaction.

In the first survey, commissioned by the CADCircle in Munich, Germany, and carried out by an independent Swiss institute, IMP (Institute of  Management Practices AG, Winterthur), users rated CoCreate's OneSpace Designer Drafting (ME10) and OneSpace Designer Modeling (SolidDesigner) higher, in terms of satisfaction, than any other competitive products. Between 48 percent and 55 percent of users were "very satisfied"  with CoCreate software, with only 1 percent or less being "unsatisfied."
In contrast, only 18 to 36 percent of users claimed to be "very satisfied"  with the other products surveyed, with up to 10 percent expressing  dissatisfaction. 

In a second survey, carried out by U.S.-based technical-consulting and market-research company CIMdata, users ranked CoCreate's WorkManager higher than they did all other products combined in seven out of nine categories related to customer satisfaction. A total of 15 products was included in  the survey. CoCreate's WorkManager product data management (PDM) solution  was rated higher than the other 14 products combined in terms of overall opinion, ease-of-use, user interface, system performance, reliability, maintainability and documentation.

"These surveys demonstrate that CoCreate's MCAD and PDM software is leading the way in customer satisfaction," said Tilman F. Schad, president of CoCreate. "We have established global customer advisory councils in  order to form close working relationships with our customers. This lets us share expertise, receive direct feedback and align product offerings with their needs."